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Saturday, 21 November 2015

Floods again...

"All those lost-named
meadows

Unkempt under summer
plovers

Or pewtered by winter
floods…"

A definite change in the weather this morning with snow
lying on the ridge of Pen Hill and a scattering on the Hambletons. A sharp
northerly wind too and it seemed to have shifted the birds. As I walked down
Warlaby Lane six Wigeon flew over, the 110th species to have been
spotted in the parish this year.

On the floods in the bottom fields there were another 13
Wigeon, 30 Curlew, two Snipe, Cormorant, around 40 Mallard and more surprisingly six
Goldeneye. There have only been two previous sightings of Goldeneye in the
parish and they were both of single birds so this has quadrupled the records!

I later walked over to scan the floodwater at Langlands but
numbers were significantly down with only around 45 Curlew now, a single
Greylag and a couple of hundred Black-headed Gull although the Teal flock was
still present along with yet another (drake) Goldeneye.

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" Men that undertake only one district are much more likely to advance natural knowledge than those that grasp at more than they can possibly be acquainted with ; every kingdom, every province, should have its own monographer."Gilbert White — The Natural History of Selborne.This blog covers the birds and other wildlife in the parish of Ainderby Steeple, North Yorkshire.